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  • Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

    Life   Writing   Letters  
    Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856
  • A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

  • I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

    Time   Learning   Usual  
    Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25
  • To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

    Writing   Men   Letters  
    Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.419
  • More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

    Love   Romantic   Kissing  
    'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)
  • Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

    Writing   Done   Letters  
    Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”
  • In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

    Writing   Play   People  
  • Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  • I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

    Writing   Men   Names  
  • I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

    Life   Two   Letters  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby
  • You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

    Writing   Garden   Rose  
  • A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

    "The Letters of Emily Dickinson". Book edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
  • It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

    Writing   Water   Doe  
    Henry Miller (1952). “The books in my life”, p.216, Рипол Классик
  • A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

    Love   Men   Letters  
    Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA
  • Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

    Passion   Writing   Heart  
  • If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

    Writing   Wind   Mind  
  • I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

    Funny   Dad   Writing  
  • I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

    Art   Writing   Paper  
    Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.71, Oxford University Press
  • I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.44, Cambridge University Press
  • Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

    Writing   Media   People  
  • If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

    Writing   Advice   Doubt  
  • Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

    Writing   Media   Age  
    Source: www.all-creatures.org
  • I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

    Art   Writing   Receiving  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

    Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.235, Courier Corporation
  • We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

    Life   Letters   Lasts  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.181
  • A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  • To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

  • real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

    Real   Writing   Humanity  
    Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin
  • Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  • Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

    Writing   Self   Answers  
    George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.671
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